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Implement something for Deranking

Gardenia
Gardenia Member Posts: 1,143
in General Discussions

It's scummy to have rank 3-1 skilled survivors clearly in a rank 13/12 match.


Something needs to happen. It's frustrating, the people using the excuse "it's no fun in high ranks" it doesn't matter. You're a menace to the population trying to genuinely have fun.

Comments

  • Kiskashi
    Kiskashi Member Posts: 1,043
    edited May 2019

    It's not even just deranking on purpose though (but it does happen, there's another problem though), I personally don't play enough to rank up (because of the new pipping requirements it takes longer and I play sporadically). I was rank 1 regular on the old system but hated pipping up from 10-1 in one session. Now it almost feels overdone because newer killers actually working up and not from resets get tougher survivors and vice versa.

    As an example I had rank 13 and rank 4 killer as a survivor at rank 12-10 on the weekend, there was no difference, if anything the rank 13s are more difficult to deal with (on both sides). I played as a rank 15 killer, got demolished by a rank 13 squad and then got green/purple rank potatoes the next match. It's the season reset that's not helping, I'd rather a 2-3 month reset or something to balance ranks a little better for people who don't play daily for hours, what is the point of rank reset anyway anymore?

  • Gardenia
    Gardenia Member Posts: 1,143
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/494292#Comment_494292

    100% agree, hopefully with their introduction of leaderboards (which I believe they said was coming soon) it will either replace or at least revise the current ranking system.

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/494296#Comment_494296

    I'm guessing it's to keep ppl investing in playing, which I understand in theory but there is a huge flaw with this ranking system. And to be reset every month with no type of incentive of reaching rank 1....it's tedious and unenjoyable for me.

  • Kiskashi
    Kiskashi Member Posts: 1,043
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/494300#Comment_494300

    Exactly, without a reward there's no point to rank reset, and that's also leading to people not bothering to pip. There's no reason to for some people. I'd prefer actual ranks based on skill/time played/devotion/experience with rewards, which would make it much nicer for people who are just getting into the game (come on the grind is already enough to scare off new players, add impossible starting matches while they're still learning and it's ridiculous) and keep people of similar skill levels together.

    I can't say the amount of times I've hit rank reset and had a survivor just figure out what the run button is and throw down every single pallet when I'm nowhere near them while I'm playing Myers. In terms of skill, I know people hated the old system but I think it did a little bit of a better job overall in comparison to rank 13 being a new slaughter grounds of confusion currently.

  • Neska
    Neska Member Posts: 132

    i’m glad that i don’t rank higher than rank 8 thanks to the brainless teammates and the ‘new’ ranking system.. the last time I was in red ranks (last year) I always got good nurses, insta saw billy’s, spirits that you can’t hear during her phasing & one shot huntresses.. so only good killers that bring the best addons.. most unfun time i had in dbd.. if you could still derank by disconnecting & i would get to that rank i would totally do it

  • FireHazard
    FireHazard Member Posts: 7,314

    Survivors like bullying lower ranked Killers to assert their dominance. Nothing says "I'm really good at Survivor" than being toxic towards an up coming new killer to the game right?

    I guess Rank 1 Survivors love EZ wins, that or they keep getting destroyed at Red Ranks by Billy and Nurses and want to neck themselves, either or.

  • Elegant
    Elegant Member Posts: 443

    There's nothing they can really do unless people are just blatantly disconnecting or afking in the match. People can just purposely play badly to not safety pip and derank . They can't punish people for this because they have no way of knowing if they just had a bad streak of games, bad teammates, etc. They would end up punishing players who aren't deraking in some cases. The better solution is to figure out why players are deranking and try to address those issues.